career mindset Quotes

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

I don't really think in career terms.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

I always view auditions as the first and last time I'll ever do a character, so that's how I like to see the joy in it. Assuming I don't ever book this, I get to play this character this one time and give it my all because I'll never play it again.

I don’t think there's ever been a point in my career where I've said, 'I've made it.' What does that mean, 'I've made it?' Made it to what? If you say, 'I've made it.' then are you finished? I don't want to be finished. I don't want to quit.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.

I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I'm like, "Well, that's over and done with, and I can't control the outcome, so move on." I just remember that it's entertainment I am making.

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

One of the most common mistakes for an entry-level job interview is to take the position: 'What is this job going to do for me?' You should be saying 'Here's what I can do and here's what I want to do to help you.'

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.